Thursday 24 March 2011

The Most Incredible Thing: Incredible?

"Pop legends Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant aka the Pet Shop Boys... Incredible, indeed - for better and worse... Campy" - Variety
"Synth-pop's wryest and most enduring exponents... A treat... enjoyable" - The Telegraph
"Electro-pop duo... Good fun... A bit baffling" - The Evening Standard
"Relentless" - The Guardian
"Electro-pop duo Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe aka the Pet Shop Boys... Often loses its way" - The Stage
"The world's favourite electronica duo... Sometimes things just don't work... an ambitious, sometimes clever project, fatally undermined by waffling choreography" - The Independent
"Electronic pop duo... ultimately fails to live up to its title" - The Times
"Two musicians... Medium-level fun, off-kilter, camp musical theatre" - The Arts Desk

Some distinctly mixed reviews of The Most Incredible Thing, Pet Shop Boys and Javier de Frutos's ballet at Sadler's Wells.
Interestingly, most reviewers were most disappointed by the actual ballet dancing bit.

• Best correction; "This article was amended on 23 March 2011. The band in question are called Pet Shop Boys, not the Pet Shop Boys as we originally named them" - The Guardian.
This mistake was repeated in every other review - still "pop legends" Pet Shop Boys have only been doing this for 25 years...

Update: "PET Shop Boys have conquered the ballet world with their new show The Most Incredible Thing... an enchanting triumph and one of the most accessible dance productions ever staged" - The Daily Star!
If they put this on again, whether or not to put that quote on the posters will give Dame Nelly Tennant such a headache.
Posted by Fagburn at 20:03:00
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4 comments:

  1. BK25 March 2011 at 09:02

    I like the fact they do these side-projects once in a while, like Closer To Heaven or the Battleship Potemkin soundtrack.
    But I think they should do a really "out there" album that's nothing like what they've done before, just to blow all the cobwebs away.

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  2. BK25 March 2011 at 09:40

    Also: Javier de Frutos. *snigger*

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  3. BK25 March 2011 at 11:05

    Hey, what happened to my other comment!?
    Am I being gagged for my provocative views!!!???
    Outrageous.

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  4. Anonymous26 March 2011 at 13:16

    It was reviewed on The Review Show last night.
    Two thmbs up, one thumb down and one thumb sort of wavering between up and down... was the general response.

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